Serving ads in my RSS feeds (and other RSS questions)
I'm getting requests at my site for full text RSS feeds--meaning, some want to get whole articles rather than teasers. The concern I have with this is that
a. How will they see the ads? I'm told you can serve up good ads via RSS (see http://daringfireball.net/2010/03/attention_is_the_real_resource), but I don't know how to do that.
b. Will it reduce ordinary site traffic?
c. "b" would not be a problem if I can claim x number subscribe via rss. So... how can one tell how many people are subsribed to his/her RSS feeds?
(My site is Drupal 6)
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 10:48 — 10th March 2010.
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I know sites like Feedburner can tell how many subscribers you have to your feeds.
Yes, I would say that it would reduce visitors to your site. I have several feeds in my reader, and I hardly visit those sites through my browser. However, I view them as the full web page in Thunderbird, which means it loads the page, ads and all.
aharown07 posted this at 12:22 — 12th March 2010.
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Thanks. Not sure how to use Feedburner in Drupal, but I'll see what I can find.
SEO Company posted this at 09:12 — 9th August 2011.
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Thanks for adding these real time stats. Will I be able to add a second email address to my Feedburner account soon. Right now I have two accounts and logging in and out of them is a pain.
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